RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter..

["Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls () utdallas edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard M. Smith [mailto:rms () computerbytesman com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:30 AM
> To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Administrivia: Testing 
> Emergency Virus Filter..
>
> The email infrastructure (SMTP servers, POP servers, 
> Web-based email systems, list serve software, etc) should all 
> be doing the same stripping of exectuables.  
I would go farther.  SMTP was never designed as a file transfer
mechanism, and it should not allow file transfer.  This would solve both
the problem of email attachment viruses *and* the scourge of the
Internet, HTML email.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ 

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